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Anastasis

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  1. The active posters here are not the intended audience. They are already pot committed. Ask @immamac for the lurker stats. We are trying to convert those people. There's GenX energy out there that would find this medium well suited.
  2. You should be more curious about a lot things.
  3. AP interview with the president of Ukraine.
  4. Zelenskyy has said as much on camera.
  5. Brisket on board with obfuscating torture training in latin american countries and simultaneously not understanding how USAID as an entity is viewed by others throughout the world is non-shocking.
  6. We just shot a government entity that had a history of funding torture training in south america into the sun. I am ok with that. I think that the farmers will be fine.
  7. Good. Then they should be resilient to a full and transparent auditing of their spending.
  8. We are not talking about the precious bolts holding your ledge to the wall. This notion that if you cut out a wasteful component of government spending, it's mad max, anarchy, no roads, no electricity, no "anything", we all devolve to hairless apes...I mean, you just tell on yourself.
  9. Some people really going lose their minds when people try to reduce government waste. We'll live.
  10. If the things that you are telling me are so fucking essential (and I tend to agree that they are good things that we should be doing) make up less than 1% of the USAID budget, USAID is non-essential.
  11. Unelected billionaire vs. unelected bureaucrats. Meh Constitutional order. LOL.
  12. Dre Day Super Bowl halftime really let that cat out the bag.
  13. Well, that would seem to be the problem wouldn't it.
  14. I did. https://www.usaspending.gov/search/?hash=fa5b8804726e08fa628d7594c8617985
  15. How much of the budget specifically goes to this function? It's amazing how easily distracted people are.
  16. Your neighbors must really take their monoculture lawn seriously.
  17. Code monkey savants? LOL. Elon is weaponizing the autists. Agree that this does not ensure competency, but fully watching people react.
  18. All thing will right themselves eventually. Or they will fail. And that is ok.
  19. Imagine having your loyalty to your country questioned by absolute bottom of barrel intellects, and otherwise intelligent people that are just totally sold on foreign policy delusions.
  20. You know more than most how this stuff works. Compartmentalize it to a social media program and pivot to contrails if you must. You know what this it is, and know that it is rife for waste fraud and abuse. I am also not worried about seeing it go. I understand people getting upset about how it is being done. Polite gets us nowhere. Just delay, deflect, and distract.
  21. Cite. I mean this is common knowledge stuff. Start here. https://foreignpolicy.com/2014/04/03/cuban-twitter-and-other-times-usaid-pretended-to-be-an-intelligence-agency/
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